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Question;1. Demand for a popular athletic shoe is nearly constant at 1500 pairs per week for a regional division of a national retailer. The cost per pair is $48. It costs $82 to place an order, and annual holding costs are charged at 22% of the cost per unit. The lead time is one week.a. What is the EOQ?b. What is the reorder point?c. What is the cycle time?d. What is the total annual cost?2. Zip Games purchases blank DVD disks onto which it copies its software for sale through its mail order operation. A disk costs Zip $.28. Processing an order for more disks cost $15. Zip uses 60,000 disks annually, and the company has a 23% cost of capital.a. Find the optimal order quantity.b. How many orders are placed annually?c. How frequently will orders be placed?3. Kellam Images prints snack food bags on long rolls of plastic film. The plant operates 260 days a year. The daily production rate is 6200 bags, and the daily demand is 3600 bags. The cost to set up the design for printing is $325. The holding cost is estimated at 2 cents per bag per year.a. What is the recommended production lot size?b. If there is a five-day lead time to set up the line, what is the recommended reorder point?c. How long is each production run?d. What is the TC for the recommended production plan?e. Sketch the inventory level over time, including the highest inventory level, production run time,?and cycle time.4. The Tiernan Gallery and Art Museum distributes to its visitors a printed guide to its collections. There are about 17,000 visitors per year. Holding costs for the brochures are 21% and it costs $28 to place an order with the printer. The printer has offered the following discount schedule:Category Order Size Unit Cost. 1 0 - 1499 $2.50. 2 1500 - 2999 $2.20. 3 3000 and over $1.80How many brochures should be printed at a time?5. Bank Drugs sells Jami Michelle lipstick. The Jami Michelle Company offers a 6% discount on orders of at least 500 tubes, a 10% discount on orders of at least 1,000 tubes, a 12% discount on orders of at least 1,500 tubes and a 15% discount on orders at least 2,500 tubes.Bank sells an average of 50 tubes of Jami Michelle lipstick weekly. The normal price paid by Bank drugs is $1 per tube. If it costs Bank $30 to place an order, and Bank's annual holding cost rate is 26%, determine the optimal order policy for Bank Drugs.6. The Fitness Shop is considering ordering a special model exercise machine. Each unit will cost the shop $425 and it will sell for $750. Any units not sold at the regular price will be sold at the year-end model clearance for $360.a. Assume that demand follows a normal probability distribution with m = 200 and s =35. What is?the recommended order quantity?b. Assume that demand is uniformly distributed between 100 and 300. What is the recommended?order quantity?7. Chez Paul Restaurant orders special Styrofoam "doggy bags" for its customers once a month and lead time is one week. Weekly demand for doggy bags is approximately normally distributed with an average of 120 bags and a standard deviation of 25 bags. Chez Paul wants at most a 3% chance of running out of doggy bags during the replenishment period. What is the reorder point for each of the orders? What is the safety stock in this case?8. Amazing Bakers sells bread to 40 supermarkets. It costs Amazing $1,250 per day to operate its plant. The profit per loaf of bread sold in the supermarket is $0.25. Any unsold bread is returned to the Amazing Thrift Store to be sold at a loss of $0.13.a. If sales follow a normal distribution with? = 70,000 and??= 5,000 per day, how many loaves should Amazing bake daily?b. Amazing is considering a different sales plan for which the profit per loaf of bread sold in the supermarket is $.28 and the loss per loaf bread returned is $.020. If? = 62,000 and??= 4,000 per day, how many loaves should Amazing bake daily?9. Kelly's Service Station does a large business in tune-ups. Demand has been averaging 220 spark plugs per week. Holding costs are $.015 per plug per week and reorder costs are estimated at $12 per order.?Kelly does not want to be out of stock on more than 2% of his orders. There is a two-day delivery time. The standard deviation of demand is five plugs per day. Assume a normal distribution of demand during lead time and a 7-day work week.a. What inventory policy do you suggest for Kelly's station?b. What is the average amount of safety stock for the reorder point in (a)?c. What are the total variable weekly costs including safety stock costs?10. The Academic Company mixes and bottles a high-energy beverage in various container types and sizes for college students. The aggregate forecast for the next four quarters in thousands of gallons is as follows:Quarter Forecast Demand (per 1000 gallons)1 4002 7003 8504 650Management makes the following assumptions:? Each employee works 520 standard hours of regular time each quarter.? On average, it takes 27 hours to produce and package 1 unit (1,000 gallons).? Regular-time labor costs $8.00 per hour, overtime labor costs $12.00 per hour.? Inventory holding cost is approximately $4.50/unit (1,000 gallons) per quarter based upon the ending inventory per quarter.? Because of extremely hot weather, there is no beginning inventory available to start Quarter 1.? Management wants a constant work force (no hiring or firing).? Managers have also decided to always round up the number of employees needed to the next?whole integer (ie 37.2 yields 38 employees).a. Determine how many employees would be needed to meet the peak required in Quarter 3.b. Determine the annual inventory holding cost if Academic decides to use a level production rate?of 650 units per quarter.c. Using a level schedule of 650 units per quarter, what will be the annual employee costs?d. Using a level schedule of 650 units per quarter, what will be the annual employee costs if only?30 employees are available and overtime is used?e. If management decides on a chase demand strategy, with production last quarter of 600 units?and a rate change cost of $2.80 per 1000 gallons, determine the total rate change cost.11. Henderson Furniture sells reproductions of 18th century furniture. For a particular table, the following information is valid.Month? DemandJan 80Feb 90Mar 100Apr 120May 95Jun 125Jul 98Aug 94Sep 75Oct 125Nov 78Dec 70Holding Cost=$200 per table per yearBackorder Cost = $50 per table per yearHiring Cost=$10 per unit?Firing Cost=$12 per unita. Calculate the costs associated with level production and chase production strategies.b. Which strategy do you recommend?

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